The chemical breakdown & Chemistry in its element

Colourful crustaceans and the story of a ubiquitous biological pigment

Kat Arney investigates the biological pigment that links sun tanning, squid ink and browning bananas

We speak to Yuri Oganessian about the element that bears his name

Three Tennessee institutions contributed to the discovery of element 117, now fittingly named tennessine

Meet the Mayor of Livermore, California, and discover how his city has been immortalised on the periodic table

The US-Russian collaborative superheavy element 'factory' strikes again, but only 100 atoms of element 115 have ever been observed

How 'hot fusion' research saw an end to cold war tensions

We catch up with the changes in the periodic table. This time, Kit Chapman discovers the element that realised a Japanese national dream

Brian Clegg illuminates a glow-in-the-dark compound that defies naming conventions

Mike Freemantle brings us a sparkling mineral and a tale of derring-do on the high seas